The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-20
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Elegant Winter Dresses In Camel's-Ha
Cloths and Other Materials.

Elegant Winter Dresses In Camel's-Hair
Cloths and Other Materials.
Modistes who copy French designs
use camel's-hair and other soft twilled
wool fabrics for winter dresses in pre-
ference to the smooth-faced cloths used
by English tailors. These are in solid
colors for dressy costumes, and in fine
stripes or checks for morning wear.
The camel's-hair cloths at three and
four dollars a yard make very rich
dresses when combined with velvet or
| plush, or with all the accessories, such
as vest and panels, made of fur; indeed.
the entire lower skirt, or all that is Wis
ible of it, is sometimes made of fur, so
| that the dress is a combination of wool
and fur. A skirt of seal-skin is a lux
ury for midwinter, and is worn under
a short polonaise of camel's-hair of the
same shade, or else of dark blue or
messy green. A brown camel's-hair
dress has all the lower skirt that is Wis
. ible in the front and up the right side
] covered with dark brown mink fur, and
; another of drab wool is bordered all
around with natural beaver, and there
is a vest of the beaver in the short coat
made to wear in the street. Leopard
skin is used as a vest and on the lower
skirt of brown velveteen suits for young
ladies, and there is a sling-sleeve cape,
with a turban and muff of the same
spotted skins. The long-maned black
Russian lamb-skin is liked with blue
toilettes, and is prettily used as a bor-
der on a skirt of blue wool striped
around with black bands that gradually
become narrower at the top; the drapery
is plain blue camel's-hair.
Plaid velvet and plain plush lower
skirts have found great favor this win
ter, and instead of appearing only as a
panel on one side, they may be made
quite full, and show on both sides of
the apron drapery and up the middle of
will find this design easily carried out,
and can feel assured that her simple
dress is a stylish one. The wool over
skirt may be made all i'll II piece, with
the selvage at the bottom. simply
caught up in folds far back on each hip,
and draped to fall in two points behind;
or else itmay be of two shaped breadths,
with two ows of stitching on the hem.
and soft Arab folds dropping from the
back of the belt, where the great full
ness is massed.
The home dress-maker who asks for
details of basques may choose between
the plain fronts, the vest front, and the
full pleated front. Thus a plain front
is liked for stylish camel's-hair basques
that have trimming of passementerie,
such as dark blue wool with black pas
~sementerie in points on one edge, and
and with tiny balls or buttons on the
other straight edge. The basque is
pointed in front. short on the hips, and
has two box pleats ending the middle
form. The pointed passementerie eN-
tends down each side of the small cro-
cheted buttons that fasten the front
(the points nearly meeting in the mid
dle), and also along the hips and back
next to the box pleats behind. The col
lar and small cuffs are covered with the
passementerie, and inside the neck and
sleeves is white feather-edged ribbon
with a small bow and ends. The fine
checked camel's-hair and the hair.
striped woods are sometimes cut bias
both in front and back of the basque.
These are then t%astefully trimmed with
rows of the wool pinked in points al.
t~ernating with plain points, laid to.
gether in a band, and passed around
the neck and down the front, tapping
to the left side like a fichu. Inside thi:
band is a V-shaped vest of velvet of the
same shade as the plain wool, or in
contrast. Thus gray and blue checked
velvet and grayish-blue wool with it
and the pretty finish to the neck and
sleeves is loops of white satin ribbon
only a fourth of an inch wide, set or
; in three rows.
. Instead of folds or frills in the necl
l OF sleeves, modistes now send HON,
each dress waist finished off with rib
bons, which may be white or in direc
l contrast with the dress material, a
rose-pink ribbons are in messy greer
silk basques, and red or orange in thos'
of dark blue. The gauze ribbons witt
| looped or tasselled or feathered edge
, are used for this purpose. They ar
folded over not quite double, SO tina
: both of the fancy edges will show jus
> above the collar of the dress. A tin,
: bow is added in front, Of stands up Oh
> the left side, and similar bows are OF
) the back seams of the sleeves just in
! side the cuff.
! Plated fronts of basques are liked 70
= slender figures, and are seen even il
the heaviest velvets. They have tw,
: plaits at the top of the shoulders mex
: the collar, and are then drawn to tn
, middle, becoming plain at the wais
= line. Thus a black velvet basque for
4 trained dress to be worn ut reception
/ has the shoulder plaits folded towar
the front, leaving a V-shaped place o
the lining, which is filled in with JET
beaded velvet, and the whole is faster
ed by small fiat velvet buttons that ar
Z studded with fine jet beads. A dark blu
velvet with demi-train has blue iride.
= cent beads covering the open V-shape
. plastron, and loops of the same trir
!, the edge of the basque. Some of tn
: striped silks and velvets are made wit
, these full fronts, giving a pretty effet
J of a fan waist; the back has the stripe
: slightly tapering, and instead Of
position basque, a smooth point no
: very sharp is continued over the flu
:, gathers at the top of the train.-Ha,
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